WO2018156061A1 - Mécanismes permettant de rapporter un port d'antenne défectueux - Google Patents

Mécanismes permettant de rapporter un port d'antenne défectueux Download PDF

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WO2018156061A1
WO2018156061A1 PCT/SE2017/050174 SE2017050174W WO2018156061A1 WO 2018156061 A1 WO2018156061 A1 WO 2018156061A1 SE 2017050174 W SE2017050174 W SE 2017050174W WO 2018156061 A1 WO2018156061 A1 WO 2018156061A1
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Erik Larsson
Mattias Frenne
Fredrik OVESJÖ
Bo Göransson
Paul Peter Von Butovitsch
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  • Embodiments presented herein relate to a method, a radio device, a computer program, and a computer program product for reporting a faulty antenna port at a transmitting radio device. Embodiments presented herein further relate to a method, a transmitting radio device, a computer program, and a computer program product for receiving reporting of a faulty antenna port at the transmitting radio device.
  • communications networks there may be a challenge to obtain good performance and capacity for a given communications protocol, its parameters and the physical environment in which the communications network is deployed.
  • one parameter in providing good performance and capacity for a given communications protocol in a communications network is the ability to detect and handle faulty equipment. Compared to a traditional radio unit (RU) deployment with few antenna branches, this issue becomes more difficult to handle for Advanced Antenna Systems (AAS) with large antenna arrays.
  • AAS Advanced Antenna Systems
  • AAS has the potential to significantly increase the network capacity and enhance end-user perception compared to traditional RUs by facilitating efficient use of advanced spatial-processing techniques such as multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) and beamforming.
  • MU-MIMO multi-user multiple input multiple output
  • AAS can be defined in many ways, but can, in general, be said to facilitate efficient alternatives to map communication resources into space according to dynamic needs. The performance of an AAS depends on many
  • AAS AAS-AAS
  • a traditional small-scale antenna system is typically deemed faulty and in need of replacement as soon as at least one of the antenna branches breaks down.
  • This approach might not be viable for large-scale AAS deployments, which might be able to continue to operate with one or a few faulty branches, and existing fault handling mechanisms may therefore not be appropriate for AAS.
  • Another issue with AAS with large antenna arrays concerns regulatory and performance requirements. In general terms, to be classified as a 5G system and approved for deployment, the AAS needs to fulfill a set of requirements. Evidently, the AAS needs to be designed and built such that all relevant requirements are satisfied. However, typically, for cost saving reasons, the margins for fulfilling the requirements are not very large. Hence, if a few antenna branches become faulty, there is a risk that some of the
  • An object of embodiments herein is to provide efficient fault detection of a transmitting radio device.
  • a method for reporting a faulty antenna port at a transmitting radio device is performed by a receiving radio device.
  • the method comprises receiving at least one reference signal transmitted at an antenna port of the transmitting radio device.
  • the method comprises determining whether the antenna port is deemed faulty or not by subjecting the at least one reference signal to an evaluation criterion.
  • the method comprises transmitting, when the antenna port is deemed faulty, a report to the transmitting radio device. The report indicates that the antenna port is deemed faulty.
  • a radio device acting as a receiving radio device for reporting a faulty antenna port at a transmitting radio device.
  • the radio device comprises processing circuitry.
  • the processing circuitry is configured to cause the radio device to receive at least one reference signal transmitted at an antenna port of the transmitting radio device.
  • the processing circuitry is configured to cause the radio device to determine whether the antenna port is deemed faulty or not by subjecting the at least one reference signal to an evaluation criterion.
  • the processing circuitry is configured to cause the radio device to transmit, when the antenna port is deemed faulty, a report to the transmitting radio device. The report indicates that the antenna port is deemed faulty.
  • a radio device acting as a receiving radio device for reporting a faulty antenna port at a transmitting radio device.
  • the radio device comprises processing circuitry and a storage medium.
  • the storage medium stores instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the radio device to perform operations, or steps.
  • the operations, or steps, cause the radio device to receive at least one reference signal transmitted at an antenna port of the transmitting radio device.
  • the operations, or steps cause the radio device to determine whether the antenna port is deemed faulty or not by subjecting the at least one reference signal to an evaluation criterion.
  • the operations, or steps cause the radio device to transmit, when the antenna port is deemed faulty, a report to the transmitting radio device. The report indicates that the antenna port is deemed faulty.
  • a radio device acting as a receiving radio device for reporting a faulty antenna port at a transmitting radio device.
  • the radio device comprises a receive module configured to receive at least one reference signal transmitted at an antenna port of the transmitting radio device.
  • the radio device comprises a determine module configured to determine whether the antenna port is deemed faulty or not by subjecting the at least one reference signal to an evaluation criterion.
  • the radio device comprises a transmit module configured to transmit, when the antenna port is deemed faulty, a report to the transmitting radio device. The report indicates that the antenna port is deemed faulty.
  • a computer program for reporting a faulty antenna port at a transmitting radio device comprises computer program code which, when run on processing circuitry of a receiving radio device, causes the receiving radio device to perform a method according to the first aspect.
  • a method for receiving reporting of a faulty antenna port at a transmitting radio device The method is performed by the transmitting radio device. The method comprises transmitting at least one reference signal at an antenna port of the
  • the method comprises receiving a report from a receiving radio device having received the at least one reference signal, wherein the report indicates that the antenna port is deemed faulty by the receiving radio device.
  • a radio device acting as a transmitting radio device for receiving reporting of a faulty antenna port at the transmitting radio device comprises processing circuitry.
  • the processing circuitry is configured to cause the radio device to transmit at least one reference signal at an antenna port of the transmitting radio device.
  • the processing circuitry is configured to cause the radio device to receive a report from a receiving radio device having received the at least one reference signal, wherein the report indicates that the antenna port is deemed faulty by the receiving radio device.
  • a radio device acting as a transmitting radio device for receiving reporting of a faulty antenna port at the transmitting radio device comprises processing circuitry and a storage medium.
  • the storage medium stores instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the radio device to perform operations, or steps.
  • the operations, or steps, cause the radio device to transmit at least one reference signal at an antenna port of the transmitting radio device.
  • the operations, or steps cause the radio device to receive a report from a receiving radio device having received the at least one reference signal, wherein the report indicates that the antenna port is deemed faulty by the receiving radio device.
  • a radio device acting as a transmitting radio device for receiving reporting of a faulty antenna port at the transmitting radio device.
  • the radio device comprises a transmit module configured to transmit at least one reference signal at an antenna port of the transmitting radio device.
  • the radio device comprises a receive module configured to receive a report from a receiving radio device having received the at least one reference signal, wherein the report indicates that the antenna port is deemed faulty by the receiving radio device.
  • a computer program for receiving reporting of a faulty antenna port at a transmitting radio device comprising computer program code which, when run on processing circuitry of the transmitting radio device, causes the transmitting radio device to perform a method according to the sixth aspect.
  • a computer program product comprising a computer program according to at least one of the fifth aspect and the tenth aspect and a computer readable storage medium on which the computer program is stored.
  • the computer readable storage medium could be a non-transitory computer readable storage medium.
  • these radio devices, and these computer programs provide means for handling faulty antenna branches and thereby enabling deployments of well-performing, robust and cost-effective AAS with large antenna arrays suitable for 5G systems and/or for the evolution of Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems.
  • LTE Long Term Evolution
  • any feature of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth seventh, eight, ninth, tenth and eleventh aspects may be applied to any other aspect, wherever appropriate.
  • any advantage of the first aspect may equally apply to the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eight, ninth, tenth, and/or eleventh aspect, respectively, and vice versa.
  • Other objectives, features and advantages of the enclosed embodiments will be apparent from the following detailed disclosure, from the attached dependent claims as well as from the drawings. Generally, all terms used in the claims are to be interpreted according to their ordinary meaning in the technical field, unless explicitly defined otherwise herein.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a communications system according to embodiments
  • FIGs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 are flowcharts of methods according to embodiments
  • Fig. 6 is a schematic illustration of an Advanced Antenna System of a transmitting radio device according to embodiments
  • Fig. 7 is a schematic illustration of mapping between reference signals and antenna branches according to embodiments.
  • Fig. 8 is a schematic illustration of a bit-map layout for logging power measurements according to an embodiment
  • Fig. 9 is a schematic illustration of resource element grids according to embodiments
  • Fig. 10 is a schematic diagram showing functional units of a receiving radio device according to an embodiment
  • Fig. 11 is a schematic diagram showing functional modules of a receiving radio device according to an embodiment
  • Fig. 12 is a schematic diagram showing functional units of a transmitting radio device according to an embodiment
  • Fig. 13 is a schematic diagram showing functional modules of a transmitting radio device according to an embodiment.
  • Fig. 14 shows one example of a computer program product comprising computer readable means according to an embodiment.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a communications system 100 where embodiments presented herein can be applied.
  • the communications system 100 comprises at least one radio device 300 acting as a transmitting radio device 300. Further functionality of the transmitting radio device 300 and how it interacts with other entities, nodes, and devices in the communications system 100 will be further disclosed below.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 could either be part of a radio access network no and be operatively connected to a core network 120 or be part of the core network 120.
  • the core network 120 is in turn operatively connected to a service network 130.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 provides network access in the radio access network 110 by transmitting and receiving signals.
  • a radio device 200 acting as a receiving radio device served by the transmitting radio device 300 is receiving signals from, and transmitting signals to, the transmitting radio device 300 enabled to access services and exchange data with the core network 120 and the service network 130.
  • the radio device 200 will hereinafter be referred to as a receiving radio device 200 and the radio device 300 will hereinafter be referred to as a transmitting radio device 300.
  • the radio device 200 may selectively act as either a receiving radio device or a transmitting radio device
  • the radio device 300 may selectively act as either a transmitting radio device or a receiving radio device.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 in Fig. 1 is illustrated as an access node and the receiving radio device 200 is illustrated as a terminal device, the transmitting radio device 300 could be implemented as a terminal device, and the receiving radio device 200 could be implemented as an access node.
  • the herein disclosed embodiments are not limited to any particular implementation of the transmitting radio device 300 and the receiving radio device 200 in this respect.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 may comprise an AAS as disclosed above.
  • an AAS using dual polarized antenna elements as the basic building block is considered here for illustrative purposes.
  • Fig. 6(a) schematically illustrates a single dual-polarized antenna element 600.
  • each subarray has two input signals, one per polarization dimension, as schematically illustrated in Fig. 6(b).
  • the combination of the antenna elements into subarrays can be done in many ways.
  • an analogue distribution network can be used, with or without remote electrical tilt (RET) functionality, or a fully flexible analogue beamforming network, where the excitation of each element can be independently tuned, can be envisioned. How the combination into subarray is done will affect the antenna radiation pattern that an input signal to the subarray experiences.
  • Multiple subarrays 620, 620' could be combined into an antenna array 640 to complete the AAS of the transmitting radio device 300, as schematically illustrated in Fig. 6(c) which comprises n-by-m subarrays 620, 620'.
  • the embodiments disclosed herein provide means for facilitating handling of faulty antenna ports at the transmitting radio device 300.
  • detection and feedback of information related to potentially faulty antenna ports are considered.
  • This report can then by the transmitting radio device 300 be used to, for example, adapt algorithms and therefore improve performance.
  • an antenna port does not correspond to a physical antenna, but is rather a logical entity distinguished by having its own reference signal sequences. Hence, separate reference signals can be defined for each antenna port.
  • the physical radio propagation channels seen from different antenna ports should preferably not interfere with each other. This could be accomplished by having different reference signal sequences with good cross- correlation properties, and by separating antenna ports in frequency, time or code (so-called cover-codes are used to make the antenna ports mutually orthogonal).
  • the embodiments disclosed herein thus relate to mechanisms for reporting a faulty antenna port at a transmitting radio device 300 and receiving reporting of a faulty antenna port at the transmitting radio device 300.
  • a receiving radio device 200 a method performed by the receiving radio device 200, a computer program product comprising code, for example in the form of a computer program, that when run on processing circuitry of the receiving radio device 200, causes the receiving radio device 200 to perform the method.
  • a transmitting radio device 300 In order to obtain such mechanisms there is further provided a transmitting radio device 300, a method performed by the transmitting radio device 300, and a computer program product comprising code, for example in the form of a computer program, that when run on processing circuitry of the transmitting radio device 300, causes the transmitting radio device 300 to perform the method.
  • Figs. 2 and 3 are flow charts illustrating embodiments of methods for reporting a faulty antenna port at a transmitting radio device 300 as performed by the receiving radio device 200.
  • Figs. 4 and 5 are flow charts illustrating embodiments of methods for receiving reporting of a faulty antenna port at the transmitting radio device 300 as performed by the transmitting radio device 300.
  • the methods are advantageously provided as computer programs 1420 a, 1420b.
  • Fig. 2 illustrating a method for reporting a faulty antenna port at a transmitting radio device 300 as performed by the receiving radio device 200 according to an embodiment.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 transmits at least one reference signal at an antenna port.
  • This at least one reference signal is assumed to be received by the receiving radio device 200.
  • the receiving radio device 200 is configured to perform step S104: S104: The receiving radio device 200 receives at least one reference signal transmitted at an antenna port of the transmitting radio device 300.
  • the receiving radio device 200 determines whether the antenna port is faulty or not by analyzing the at least one reference signal. Hence, the receiving radio device 200 is configured to perform step S106: S106: The receiving radio device 200 determines whether the antenna port is deemed faulty or not by subjecting the at least one reference signal to an evaluation criterion.
  • a report is then transmitted by the receiving radio device 200 when the antenna port is deemed faulty.
  • the receiving radio device 200 is configured to perform step S108:
  • the receiving radio device 200 transmits, when the antenna port is deemed faulty, a report to the transmitting radio device 300.
  • the report indicates that the antenna port is deemed faulty. No report is sent when the antenna port is deemed not faulty.
  • a single short fault message is transmitted when a potential fault is detected by the receiving radio device 200, compared to, for example, if the receiving radio device 200 would regularly measure and report the power (or use another evaluation criterion) of each antenna port.
  • the at least one reference signal should be interpreted as a reference signal sequence associated with the antenna port.
  • the receiving radio device 200 could be configured to receive such reference sequences associated with at least one antenna port, i.e. each antenna port has its own reference signal sequence.
  • the receiving radio device 200 could be configured to process several antenna ports (i.e., several reference signal sequences) in parallel.
  • Embodiments relating to further details of reporting a faulty antenna port at a transmitting radio device 300 as performed by the receiving radio device 200 will now be disclosed.
  • the evaluation criteria could consider the signal to noise ratio (SNR) or the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR).
  • SNR signal to noise ratio
  • SINR signal to interference plus noise ratio
  • RSRP Reference Signal Received Power
  • the evaluation criterion relates to received power, and subjecting the at least one reference signal to the evaluation criterion comprises comparing received power of the at least one reference signal to a power threshold.
  • the evaluation criterion relates to signal quality
  • subjecting the at least one reference signal to the evaluation criterion comprises comparing signal quality of the at least one reference signal to a quality threshold.
  • the quality threshold therefore is a function of an average of the received power of all reference signals associated with the antenna ports, such as all the antenna ports or a subset of all antenna ports (e.g., antenna ports that are Quasi Co-Located (QCL) antenna ports).
  • QCL Quasi Co-Located
  • the evaluation criterion relates to signal phase
  • subjecting the at least one reference signal to the evaluation criterion comprises comparing signal phase of the at least one reference signal to a phase threshold.
  • any of the above disclosed thresholds could be either absolute, or relative; e.g. based on power, signal quality, or signal phase, of other received signals.
  • the power threshold could be a function of average received power of all reference signals associated with antenna ports that are QCL antenna ports.
  • the notion of QCL can be generalized to include any explicit differences between antenna ports. For example, it is envisioned that different (groups of) antenna ports use different transmission power. This information is then included in the QCL information and used when normalizing the per antenna port quality. For example, an antenna port can be deemed faulty if the associated measured received power of the reference signal is below a specific threshold (absolute), or if the received power is below the average power measured over all QCL antenna ports times a threshold (relative).
  • the receiving radio device 200 measures the received power, or other signal quantity such as signal quality or signal phase of the at least one reference signal for each antenna port over a specific time period ti, where ti typically is long enough to remove small scale effects, e.g. average out fast fading, and achieve enough accuracy.
  • the received power is measured over a time period to gather statistics of the received power, and the received power is compared to the power threshold based on the statistics.
  • a timer T is started and the receiving radio device 200 performs measurements until n faults have been found for a specific antenna port, where a fault is triggered if, for example, the measured power over a port falls below a power threshold (or similar if another evaluation criterion is used). Between each assessment a predefined time t2 should elapse. If the timer T expires, then the receiving radio device 200 restarts the procedure, i.e. reset the number of faults. The receiving radio device 200 could be configured to then make an assessment based on the total elapsed time to find n faults.
  • the receiving radio device 200 could be configured to, for each antenna port, perform n consecutive measurements with a predefined time- period between each assessment and count the number of assessments m where the received power is below the power threshold (or similar if another evaluation criterion is used).
  • the receiving radio device 200 could be configured to perform repeated measurements over a specified time period t3, where each measurement is over a time period ti and the time between each measurement is t2, and count the number of occasions where the received power is below the threshold a.
  • Timers/thresholds can also be defined implicitly, e.g. rather than specifying a timer T that determines the length of each measurement, the timer T can be specified as a performance requirement. For example, the measurement should be done such that the accuracy of the result is plus/minus x dB.
  • Timers, counters, rules, thresholds, etc. can be antenna specific, i.e. they are likely to, but not limited to, be cell-specific.
  • each fault-occasion can be marked in a bit-map having time as one dimension, and potentially port number (CSI-RS) as another. Also, instead of counting the number of potential faults, the measured power for each reference signal can be logged. Based on the error pattern, a judgment of the type of fault can be made.
  • Fig. 8 schematically illustrates a bit-map layout 800 for logging power
  • Timers and counters could, for example, be agnostic with reference to a standard (i.e., standard transparent), hardwired, defined by a standard, signaled by the network, deduced based on other inputs, such as Doppler, or a combination thereof.
  • a standard i.e., standard transparent
  • any of the above thresholds could, for example, be set by a standard, signaled by the transmitting radio device 300, deduced based on other inputs, such as total received power, average received power over all antenna ports, total transmitted power, transmitted power per antenna branch, transmitted power per antenna port, or a combination thereof.
  • Fig. 3 illustrating methods for reporting a faulty antenna port at a transmitting radio device 300 as performed by the receiving radio device 200 according to further embodiments. It is assumed that steps l6
  • the assessment whether an antenna port is deemed faulty or not could be performed periodically, or be event triggered.
  • the receiving radio device 200 is configured by the transmitting radio device 300 for reporting when an antenna port is deemed faulty.
  • the receiving radio device 200 is configured to perform step S102:
  • the receiving radio device 200 obtains a request from the transmitting radio device 300 to determine whether the antenna port is deemed faulty or not.
  • the threshold could be based on using relative measurements as inputs.
  • the receiving radio device 200 may therefore need to use signals received also from other antenna ports during the evaluation of a given antenna port.
  • the receiving radio device 200 is configured to perform step Si04a:
  • the receiving radio device 200 receives at least one further signal transmitted at at least one further antenna port of the transmitting radio device 300.
  • the at least one further signal is used when determining whether the antenna port is deemed faulty or not in step S106.
  • Reception of the report transmitted in step S108 is in some aspects acknowledged by the transmitting radio device 300. That is, the transmitting radio device 300 could be configured to inform the receiving radio device 200 that it has received the report. Hence, according to an embodiment the receiving radio device 200 is configured to perform step S110:
  • the receiving radio device 200 receives an acknowledgement of the report from the transmitting radio device 300.
  • the receiving radio device 200 does not trigger transmission of the same report again.
  • the receiving radio device 200 is configured to perform step S112 when the antenna port is deemed faulty: S112: The receiving radio device 200 refrains from transmitting more than one report to the transmitting radio device 300 indicating that the antenna port is deemed faulty.
  • the receiving radio device 200 could thereby be configured to avoid assessing, and potentially reporting, the same fault over and over again. For example, if a fault report has been received and acknowledged (if applicable) by the transmitting radio device 300 as in step S110, then the receiving radio device 200 might not trigger the same report again until explicitly told to restart evaluating the previously faulty antenna port, until a timer has expired or until a rule enabling re-start of fault detection is triggered.
  • An example of a rule could be a cell restart.
  • the receiving radio device 200 does not take into account measurements of a faulty antenna port during future reporting of reference signals received from the transmitting radio device 300. Therefore, according to an embodiment the receiving radio device 200 is configured to perform step S114 when the antenna port is deemed faulty:
  • S114 The receiving radio device 200 ignores reception of further signals from the antenna port deemed faulty.
  • Step S114 facilitates so-called antenna port subset restriction and would help the receiving radio device 200 in terms of, for example, avoiding assessing faulty antenna ports once again (see above), and avoiding the need to perform channel estimation for zero power reference signals, thereby reducing processing burden and enhancing estimation of rank (RI), precoding matrix index (PMI), channel state information (CSI) resource selection (CRI) and channel quality indicator (CQI) information.
  • RI rank
  • PMI precoding matrix index
  • CSI channel state information
  • CQI channel quality indicator
  • Step S114 could be autonomously triggered in the receiving radio device 200 if an antenna port is deemed faulty, or it can be triggered by the transmitting radio device 300, either implicitly via acknowledgment of the report in step S110 or via an explicit antenna port subset restriction network signal. That is, according to an embodiment the ignoring in step S114 is triggered either by the receiving radio device 200 or by the transmitting radio device 300.
  • measurement for each antenna port is made several times for the receiving radio device 200 to gain more knowledge, and, for example, to enable the transmitting radio device 300 to identify partly faulty antenna ports, such as faults caused by loose connections. Therefore, according to an embodiment the at least one reference signal is represented by a set of time/frequency resources, and the at least one reference signal is repeatedly subjected to the evaluation criterion for at least two occurrences of such sets of time/frequency resources. In some aspects there are as many reference signals as there are antenna ports.
  • Fig. 7 schematically illustrates how data and demodulation pilot signals are input to a precoder and where n reference signals i...n are mapped to n antenna branches i...n.
  • the receiving radio device 200 could then perform the evaluation (as defined by steps S104, S106, S108) for each antenna port.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 transmits the at least one reference signal on a plurality of antenna ports one at a time, and the determining in step S106 is repeated for all antenna ports, and the report indicates all those antenna port that are deemed faulty.
  • Measurements and/ or fault assessments can be made for all antenna ports in parallel, or in a time-multiplexed manner, i.e. one antenna port in each time period, or a combination thereof, e.g. spread the measurements over time, where for each time instance, a number of parallel antenna ports are evaluated.
  • the approach of spreading the measurements in time reduces the instantaneous processing requirement at the receiving radio device 200, and reduces the required number of antenna ports.
  • a single antenna port can be used to assess all antenna branches at the transmitting radio device 300 by the transmitting radio device 300 transmitting the at least one reference signal from different antenna branches each time period.
  • the receiving radio device 200 will then transmit a report as in step S108 for each antenna port deemed faulty (without knowing which antenna branch the measurement corresponds to), and the transmitting radio device 300 needs to map each reported measurement to the correct antenna branch.
  • the receiving radio device 200 is configured to assess the quality of n antenna ports, split into m groups or panels with n/m antenna ports each, where antenna ports belonging to a group have the same relevant QCL characteristics in terms of path loss and transmit power.
  • the antenna might consist of m panels that are spatially distributed, hence having different average path loss characteristics.
  • the receiving radio device 200 measures the long-term average receive power for each antenna port e.g. using the reference signals associated with each antenna port. Furthermore, the receiving radio device 200 determines the average received power for each group of antenna ports. Then, if the average received power of an antenna port normalized with the average received power of all antenna ports in the associated QCL group is below a threshold, then the antenna port is deemed faulty, and a report is triggered and transmitted to the transmitting radio device 300.
  • Fig. 4 illustrating a method for receiving reporting of a faulty antenna port at the transmitting radio device 300 as performed by the transmitting radio device 300 according to an embodiment.
  • the receiving radio device 200 is configured to determine whether an antenna port at the transmitting radio device 300 is faulty by analysing at least one reference signal transmitted by the transmitting radio device 300.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 is configured to perform step S204: S204: The transmitting radio device 300 transmits at least one reference signal at an antenna port of the transmitting radio device 300.
  • the receiving radio device 200 transmits a report if the receiving radio device 200 deems the antenna port to be faulty.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 is configured to perform step S206:
  • the transmitting radio device 300 receives a report from the receiving radio device 200 having received the at least one reference signal.
  • the report indicates that the antenna port is deemed faulty by the receiving radio device 200.
  • Embodiments relating to further details of receiving reporting of a faulty antenna port at the transmitting radio device 300 as performed by the transmitting radio device 300 will now be disclosed.
  • Fig. 5 illustrating methods for receiving reporting of a faulty antenna port at the transmitting radio device 300 as performed by the transmitting radio device 300 according to further embodiments. It is assumed that steps S204, S206 are performed as described above with reference to Fig. 4 and a thus repeated description thereof is therefore omitted.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 could be configured to configure the receiving radio device 200 for reporting if an antenna port is deemed faulty.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 is configured to perform step S202:
  • the transmitting radio device 300 provides a request to the receiving radio device 200 to determine whether the antenna port is deemed faulty or not.
  • a single antenna port can be used to assess all antenna branches at the transmitting radio device 300 by having the transmitting radio device 300 transmitting the reference signal of the single antenna port using different antenna branches each time period.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 is configured to perform step S202 when there are at least two antenna branches:
  • the transmitting radio device 300 sequentially maps the antenna port to each of the at least two antenna branches, such that the at least one reference signal is transmitted at the antenna port using all of the at least two antenna branches one at a time.
  • an antenna port is regarded as a logical entity, but it is mapped to physical resources, such as antenna branches, radio chains, or other hardware components at the transmitting radio device 300.
  • the antenna port is mapped to at least one antenna branch at the transmitting radio device 300.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 runs internal diagnostics in order to evaluate whether or not the report is correct.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 could be configured to make the final decision whether the antenna port in fact is faulty.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 is configured to perform step S208:
  • the transmitting radio device 300 runs a fault diagnostics procedure on the at least one antenna branch in order to verify whether the report is correct or not. The transmitting radio device 300 could then inform the receiving radio device 200 of its decision in an acknowledgment to the receiving radio device 200.
  • reception of the report transmitted by the receiving radio device 200 in step S110 could thus be acknowledged by the transmitting radio device 300, i.e. the transmitting radio device 300 could be configured to inform the receiving radio device 200 that it has received the report.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 is configured to perform step S210: S210: The transmitting radio device 300 transmits an acknowledgement of the report to the receiving radio device 200.
  • the acknowledgement could comprise different levels of information. For example, the acknowledgement could inform the receiving radio device 200 that all information has been received and acknowledged (binary ACK), or it could inform the receiving radio device 200 that the report is considered incorrect and should not be taken into consideration. As another example, the acknowledgement could comprise more information informing the receiving radio device 200 that part of the report has been acknowledged and corresponding actions should apply, whereas other parts of the report are seen as incorrect and should not be used to adapt the system behaviour.
  • the acknowledgement transmitted from the transmitting radio device 300 in step S210 could thus inform the receiving radio device 200 what action to take.
  • the acknowledgement in steps S110 and S210 specifies an action relating to the reported antenna port deemed faulty. The action is to be taken by the receiving radio device 200.
  • the acknowledgement transmitted from the transmitting radio device 300 in step S210 could inform the receiving radio device 200 that the report transmitted by the receiving radio device 200 in step S108 is considered incorrect and that the receiving radio device 200 is to continue reception, or that the receiving radio device 200 is to stop reception (when report is correct).
  • the action indicates that the receiving radio device 200 is to continue reception of signals transmitted at the antenna port due to the antenna port erroneously having been deemed faulty by the receiving radio device 200,
  • the action indicates that the receiving radio device 200 is to ignore reception of signals transmitted at the antenna port.
  • a reference signal needs to be transmitted on a plurality of antenna ports, one at a time if the receiving radio device 200 is not enabled to process several antenna ports in parallel. Further, according to an embodiment the at least one reference signal is transmitted on a plurality of antenna ports, one at a time.
  • a reference signal having its own unique reference signal sequence could be mapped to each respective antenna port such that a unique reference signal sequence is transmitted from each antenna port. That is, each antenna port could have its own reference signal sequence.
  • Transmission of reference signals on different antenna ports could be separated in time, frequency or by cover codes.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 could run internal diagnostic tests. If the internal diagnostic test reveals that the antenna port indeed is faulty, the transmitting radio device 300 could then adapt its operation thereafter. For example, the transmitting radio device 300 could re-map the antenna port to another antenna branch (assuming that there are two or more antenna branches in the transmitting radio device 300 could).
  • the transmitting radio device 300 is configured to perform step S212 when there are at least two antenna branches:
  • the transmitting radio device 300 re-maps the antenna port from its current antenna branch of the at least two antenna branches to another one of the at least two antenna branches, such that the at least one reference signal is transmitted at the antenna port using said another one of the at least two antenna branches.
  • antenna branches are to be used, then only a subset of all antenna branches in each evaluation period can be evaluated. A re-mapping of antenna branches and antenna ports is then performed between different evaluation periods.
  • One example would be to assign one (or a few) special antenna port(s) used for fault detection, where both the transmitting radio device 300 and the receiving radio device 200 know the time instances when a re-mapping between antenna branch and antenna port occurs. In this case the receiving radio device 200 would need to make the evaluation of each antenna branch in a time-sequential manner, one at a time.
  • CSI-RS Channel-State Information Reference Signals
  • DM-RS Demodulation Reference Signals
  • SRS Sounding Reference Signals
  • Fig. 9 at 900, 910 and 920 illustrates three examples of a resource element grid over an resource block pair showing potential positions for Release 9 or 10 user-specific reference signals (DM-RS), CSI-RS (marked with a number x corresponding to the CSI-RS antenna port, i.e., where x takes a value in the sets ⁇ 0,1 ⁇ , ⁇ 0,1,2,3 ⁇ and ⁇ 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 ⁇ , respectively), and cell-specific reference signals (CRS), together with resource elements used for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH).
  • PDCH physical downlink control channel
  • PDSCH physical downlink shared channel
  • the CSI-RS utilizes an orthogonal cover code of length two to overlay two antenna ports on two consecutive resource elements. As seen, many different CSI-RS patterns are available. For the case of 2 CSI-RS antenna ports, there are 20 different patterns within a subframe. The corresponding number of patterns is 10 and 5 for 4 and 8 CSI-RS antenna ports, respectively. For time division duplex (TDD) additional CSI- RS patterns are available.
  • TDD time division duplex
  • Fig. 10 schematically illustrates, in terms of a number of functional units, the components of a radio device 200 acting as a receiving radio device 200 according to an embodiment.
  • Processing circuitry 210 is provided using any combination of one or more of a suitable central processing unit (CPU), multiprocessor, microcontroller, digital signal processor (DSP), etc., capable of executing software instructions stored in a computer program product 1410a (as in Fig. 14), e.g. in the form of a storage medium 230.
  • the processing circuitry 210 may further be provided as at least one application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), or field programmable gate array (FPGA).
  • ASIC application specific integrated circuit
  • FPGA field programmable gate array
  • the processing circuitry 210 is configured to cause the receiving radio device 200 to perform a set of operations, or steps, S102-S114, as disclosed above.
  • the storage medium 230 may store the set of operations
  • the processing circuitry 210 maybe configured to retrieve the set of operations from the storage medium 230 to cause the receiving radio device 200 to perform the set of operations.
  • the set of operations maybe provided as a set of executable instructions.
  • the processing circuitry 210 is thereby arranged to execute methods as herein disclosed.
  • the storage medium 230 may also comprise persistent storage, which, for example, can be any single one or combination of magnetic memory, optical memory, solid state memory or even remotely mounted memory.
  • the receiving radio device 200 may further comprise a communications interface 220 for communications at least with a transmitting radio device 300.
  • the communications interface 220 may comprise one or more transmitters and receivers, comprising analogue and digital components.
  • the processing circuitry 210 controls the general operation of the receiving radio device 200 e.g. by sending data and control signals to the
  • communications interface 220 and the storage medium 230 by receiving data and reports from the communications interface 220, and by retrieving data and instructions from the storage medium 230.
  • Other components, as well as the related functionality, of the receiving radio device 200 are omitted in order not to obscure the concepts presented herein.
  • Fig. 11 schematically illustrates, in terms of a number of functional modules, the components of a radio device 200 acting as a receiving radio device 200 according to an embodiment.
  • the receiving radio device 200 of Fig. 11 comprises a number of functional modules; a receive module 210b configured to perform step S104, a determine module 2iod configured to perform step S106, and a transmit module 2ioe configured to perform step S108.
  • the receiving radio device 200 of Fig. 11 schematically illustrates, in terms of a number of functional modules, the components of a radio device 200 acting as a receiving radio device 200 according to an embodiment.
  • the receiving radio device 200 of Fig. 11 comprises a number of functional modules; a receive module 210b configured to perform step S104, a determine module 2iod configured to perform step S106, and a transmit module 2ioe configured to perform step S108.
  • each functional module 2ioa-2ioh may be implemented in hardware or in software.
  • one or more or all functional modules 2ioa-2ioh maybe implemented by the processing circuitry 210, possibly in cooperation with the communications interface 220 and/or the storage medium 230.
  • the processing circuitry 210 may thus be arranged to from the storage medium 230 fetch instructions as provided by a functional module 2ioa-2ioh and to execute these instructions, thereby performing any steps of the receiving radio device 200 as disclosed herein.
  • Fig. 12 schematically illustrates, in terms of a number of functional units, the components of a radio device 300 acting as a transmitting radio device 300 according to an embodiment.
  • Processing circuitry 310 is provided using any combination of one or more of a suitable central processing unit (CPU), multiprocessor, microcontroller, digital signal processor (DSP), etc., capable of executing software instructions stored in a computer program product 1410b (as in Fig. 14), e.g. in the form of a storage medium 330.
  • the processing circuitry 310 may further be provided as at least one application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), or field programmable gate array (FPGA).
  • ASIC application specific integrated circuit
  • FPGA field programmable gate array
  • processing circuitry 310 is configured to cause the
  • the storage medium 330 may store the set of operations, and the processing circuitry 310 may be configured to retrieve the set of operations from the storage medium 330 to cause the transmitting radio device 300 to perform the set of operations.
  • the set of operations may be provided as a set of executable instructions.
  • the processing circuitry 310 is thereby arranged to execute methods as herein disclosed.
  • the storage medium 330 may also comprise persistent storage, which, for example, can be any single one or combination of magnetic memory, optical memory, solid state memory or even remotely mounted memory.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 may further comprise a communications interface 320 for communications at least with a receiving radio device 200.
  • the communications interface 320 may comprise one or more transmitters and receivers, comprising analogue and digital components.
  • the processing circuitry 310 controls the general operation of the
  • Fig. 13 schematically illustrates, in terms of a number of functional modules, the components of a radio device 300 acting as a transmitting radio device 300 according to an embodiment.
  • the transmitting radio device 300 of Fig. 13 comprises a number of functional modules; a transmit module 310b configured to perform step S204, and a receive module 3iod configured to perform step S206.
  • each functional module 3ioa-3iog maybe implemented in hardware or in software.
  • one or more or all functional modules 3ioa-3iog maybe implemented by the processing circuitry 310, possibly in cooperation with the communications interface 320 and/or the storage medium 330.
  • the processing circuitry 310 may thus be arranged to from the storage medium 330 fetch instructions as provided by a functional module 3ioa-3iog and to execute these instructions, thereby performing any steps of the transmitting radio device 300 as disclosed herein.
  • the receiving radio device 200 and/or the transmitting radio device 300 may be provided as a standalone device or as a part of at least one further device.
  • one of the receiving radio device 200 and the transmitting radio device 300 may be provided in a node of the radio access network or in a node of the core network.
  • functionality of the receiving radio device 200 and/or transmitting radio device 300 maybe distributed between at least two devices, or nodes. These at least two nodes, or devices, may either be part of the same network part (such as the radio access network or the core network) or maybe spread between at least two such network parts.
  • a first portion of the instructions performed by the receiving radio device 200 / transmitting radio device 300 maybe executed in respective first devices, and a second portion of the of the instructions performed by the receiving radio device 200 / transmitting radio device 300 maybe executed in respective second devices; the herein disclosed embodiments are not limited to any particular number of devices on which the instructions performed by the receiving radio device 200 and/or the transmitting radio device 300 maybe executed.
  • the methods according to the herein disclosed embodiments are suitable to be performed by a receiving radio device 200 and/or a transmitting radio device 300 residing in a cloud computational environment. Therefore, although a single processing circuitry 210, 310 is illustrated in Figs. 10 and 12 the processing circuitry 210, 310 may be distributed among a plurality of devices, or nodes. The same applies to the functional modules 2ioa-2ioh, 3ioa-3iog of Figs. 11 and 13 and the computer programs 1420a, 1420b of Fig. 14 (see below).
  • Fig. 14 shows one example of a computer program product 1410a, 1410b comprising computer readable means 1430.
  • a computer program 1420a can be stored, which computer program 1420a can cause the processing circuitry 210 and thereto operatively coupled entities and devices, such as the communications interface 220 and the storage medium 230, to execute methods according to embodiments described herein.
  • the computer program 1420a and/or computer program product 1410a may thus provide means for performing any steps of the receiving radio device 200 as herein disclosed.
  • a computer program 1420b can be stored, which computer program 1420b can cause the processing circuitry 310 and thereto operatively coupled entities and devices, such as the communications interface 320 and the storage medium 330, to execute methods according to embodiments described herein.
  • the computer program 1420b and/or computer program product 1410b may thus provide means for performing any steps of the transmitting radio device 300 as herein disclosed.
  • the computer program product 1410a, 1410b is illustrated as an optical disc, such as a CD (compact disc) or a DVD (digital versatile disc) or a Blu-Ray disc.
  • the computer program product 1410a, 1410b could also be embodied as a memory, such as a random access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), or an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) and more particularly as a non-volatile storage medium of a device in an external memory such as a USB (Universal Serial Bus) memory or a Flash memory, such as a compact Flash memory.
  • RAM random access memory
  • ROM read-only memory
  • EPROM erasable programmable read-only memory
  • EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read-only memory
  • the computer program 1420a, 1420b is here schematically shown as a track on the depicted optical disk, the computer program 1420a, 1420b can be stored in any way which is suitable for the computer program product 1410a, 1410b.
  • the inventive concept has mainly been described above with reference to a few embodiments. However, as is readily appreciated by a person skilled in the art, other embodiments than the ones disclosed above are equally possible within the scope of the inventive concept, as defined by the appended patent claims. In the herein disclosed embodiments the term faulty antenna port is commonly used.
  • faulty can be interpreted widely, such as referring to an antenna port being completely broken, partly broken (e.g. when a reference signals is received with reduced power), having a loose connection, etc.

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L'invention concerne des mécanismes permettant de rapporter un port d'antenne défectueux au niveau d'un dispositif radio de transmission. Un procédé est effectué par un dispositif radio de réception. Le procédé consiste à recevoir au moins un signal de référence transmis au niveau d'un port d'antenne du dispositif radio de transmission. Le procédé consiste à déterminer si le port d'antenne est jugé défectueux ou non en soumettant le ou les signaux de référence à un critère d'évaluation. Le procédé consiste à transmettre, lorsque le port d'antenne est jugé défectueux, un rapport au dispositif radio de transmission. Le rapport indique que le port d'antenne est jugé défectueux.
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